THE weather may have postponed East Kilbride Rugby Club’s weekend trip to Perthshire, but it allowed first team boss Allan Steel to take in the club’s reserve clash with Lenzie and see the promising youth players he has at his disposal.

EK’s match on Saturday fell foul of a waterlogged pitch and Steel took the opportunity to take in the reserve team’s five-try win at Lenzie.

The Torrance House gaffer has picked out scrum-half Aidan Scott and outside-centre Roddy Beaton as two of the club’s top prospects and reckons they will give the first team players a run for their money.

Steel told the News: “We’ve not seen much action since Christmas, just the two games, so we were keen to play the game on Saturday.

“We were missing a lot of guys, but it was still a game I believed we could go and win, so it was disappointing.

“But I ended up at the reserve game against Lenzie and I was happy with some of the youngsters we’ve got coming through.

“Roddy Beaton is doing well. He played on Saturday and scored the first couple of tries, so he’s really put himself in contention for playing the next game for the first team.

“And there’s Aidan Scott, too, who has just turned 18. He’s played the last two weeks for the reserves and has been controlling games well.

“Aidan was going to play against Perthshire as a reward for how well he’s been playing recently.

“The position he is in is quite strong with guys like Grant Seymour and Callum Blackwood, but he’s doing well and going into the latter part of the season you need guys like that to push everyone else on.

“If the regulars are not playing well then there are younger guys ready to step up and take their place.”

EK are entering the business end of the season and sit ninth in the table with eight games to go.

But with a free week coming up Steel is determined to get a friendly organised for Saturday ahead of their crucial league meeting with second-bottom Berwick on February 20.

Steel added: “I’ll need to make some calls to get something sorted because Berwick is massive and we want to get a game in before then.

“We need to start winning games because the teams around us have been picking up results in the time we haven’t played. It’s got quite congested in the bottom half of the table.

“If we can pick up three wins from the teams around us that would be massive because we’ve got a double-header with GHK to come.

“They are the league leaders and haven’t lost a game all season, so we know how tough that’s going to be.

“I believe the squad we’ve got are capable of getting those wins and with some of the youngsters we’ve got coming through it bodes well.”